A Kurdish deputy is likely to pass the oil and gas law during the next parliamentary session
A Kurdish deputy is likely to pass the oil and gas law during the next parliamentary session
2021-06-27 08:08
Shafaq News/ Kurdistan Democratic Party MP Dana Muhammad suggested on Sunday the approval of the oil and gas law during the electoral parliamentary session, returning it to “a solution to the oil disputes between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.”
Muhammad told Shafaq News Agency, “The disruption of the approval of the oil and gas law since 2007 until now is due to differences between all political forces, not certain forces or components,” noting that “it was not put on the parliament’s agenda over the past years because of the political disputes and disagreements over its provisions “.
Muhammad suggested, “the approval of the oil and gas law during the next parliamentary session for its importance in resolving the oil disputes between Baghdad and Erbil and determining the powers of the federal government and the powers of the region,” and considered it “an end to the long political debate between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.”
He added, “The adoption of the law will put the Iraqi parliament in permanent knowledge of the powers of the federal government and the regional government,” stressing that “the Kurds and the Kurdistan Democratic Party with the approval of the oil and gas law in a manner that suits the interest of the region and the federal government with regard to its details and provisions.”
The differences between the blocs and the parties over the past years have resulted in more than three formulations of the oil and gas law. The first has existed since 2007 and was rejected after the Kurdistan Alliance’s objection. As for the second version, it was developed in 2010, but the National Alliance expressed its objection to the law and withdrew from the voting session on the project. The third is a proposed law drawn up by the Parliamentary Oil and Energy Committee in 2011, but it was also rejected by various political parties.
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